Township: Kilkenneth

Map Reference: Kilkenneth f

Name Type: house

Meaning: The house or ruin of Big Lachlan

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Information:Mairi Ròsdal wanted to send a telegram to call the doctor for Lachainnn Mòr. It was going to cost six old pennies and the old man would not let her - Flora MacDonald, Kilkenneth, 1/1994.

Ailean an Sgoilear was brought up in this house - Alasdair Sinclair, Greenhill, 5/1994.

He remembers Lachie having a clay jar of sugar on the mantlepiece with a spoon for giving it out to children - Sandy MacKinnon, Kilkenneth.
Lachainn Mòr was known as 'Mearan'

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Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Alasdair Sinclair, Greenhill, 5/1994